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Zorilla posted:Here's one I don't see getting resolved by NVIDIA any time soon: http://tinyurl.com/h9bcw I haven't seen this answered yet. That should fix it. Edit: Also on the topic of 7900 series cards, I just upgraded my 7800GTX 256MB to a 7900GTX 512MB, but for most people this is a pointless upgrade. I would only suggest it if you're running the latest games on a VERY high res display (1920x1200 and up). Most people won't see the benefits on smaller displays. Double Edit: In regards to the PSU debate, I'm running an Athlon X2 4400+ w/ the previously mentioned 7900GTX on a Seasonic S12 380W. Star War Sex Parrot fucked around with this message at 00:18 on Jul 11, 2006 |
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mATX isn't for everyone, but I've built 5 machines based around this Asus AM2 motherboard: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813131014 I also built 2 more based on the previous boards for sockets 939 and 754: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813131570 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813131588 I've never had any problems with any of them. Edit: These can be used in regular ATX cases, you don't need a mATX case. The only thing you're sacrificing is some expansion slots. Star War Sex Parrot fucked around with this message at 19:23 on Sep 8, 2006 |
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CactusWeasle posted:Here's one: are we going to see graphics cards that have HDMI connections? A lot of LCD TV's only have VGA input and no digital option (like the Samsung LE32R41B that im using now). It would be nice to be displaying 1360x768 in digital They're already out. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814102032
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CactusWeasle posted:early models are probably riddled with issues They're actually not. The technology to put HDMI/HDCP in video cards has been around for several years (I think the 6800 series chipset supported it as the earliest example) but it's up to the card manufacturers to actually put the HDCP chip on the card. Up until now there hasn't been much of a reason for them to do that. Edit: here's some great articles on the topic: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060214-6177.html http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/ati_nvidia_hdcp_support/ Star War Sex Parrot fucked around with this message at 21:18 on Sep 8, 2006 |
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Zorilla posted:Also, couldn't you just use a DVI-to-HDMI adapter on a regular card? I was under the impression that HDCP was checked by the source device (e.g. usually a cable box, in this case, the video card) No. Manufacturers weren't enabled the HDCP funcitonality in cards until the HDMI cards started coming out.
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Melting Eggs posted:I see some motherboard makers are coming out with boards that support 3 16x PCI-e slots. What's that all about, support 3 video cards at once or something else? ATI demonstrated a system with 3 video cards in it. 2 in Crossfire doing graphics calculations, and a third with its GPU dedicated solely to running physics (Havok API - take THAT PhysX).
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Zorilla posted:or maybe that it's even bi-directional? This is basically correct. Every link in the chain must support HDCP, end to end.
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DeadlySpork posted:I plan on purchasing an amd athlon 64 x2 4800 in the near future, one of the biggest problems i've had before in my life was overheating computers. I'm not sure what your previous builds were running, but overheating really isn't an issue anymore for people that don't overclock. The AthlonX2's run really cool with the stock heatsink/fan, so I wouldn't worry about replacing it unless you want something passsive or you want to overclock.
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Alfajor posted:I ran the nvidia display adjustment wizard (the one that makes you play with those sliders for Red, Green and Blue), and I don't really like what it looks like now. Although I can go back and gonk it on purpose, it still doesn't look like it used to before I ran the wizard. If I remember correctly, running it again will reset the values. So just run the wizard again and don't adjust any of the values.
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gwar3k1 posted:Whats the deal with buying parts from America and having them shipped to the UK? I could save $120 if I bought from NewEgg but they don't ship international and I'm pretty sure there must be a legal reason or something. Don't you have to pay customs on it?
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Boz0r posted:Does anyone know what the difference between all the new intel chipsets for the new Core 2 Duo CPUs are? I can't seem to find anything on this on their own site, and I tried googling for this. If anyone has a link to a comparison chart or something equally snappy, I'd be very grateful. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2014406 Star War Sex Parrot fucked around with this message at 23:38 on Sep 26, 2006 |
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Boz0r posted:I've been looking at some different motherboards, and it seems that there are some with SingleBios, some with DualBios and some with QuadBios. I've searched on google, but I can't really find any info on this. What's the use of this? These are usually found on enthusiast boards. The idea for dual BIOS was that if you managed to severely break something while overclocking (won't POST) or you screw up a BIOS flash you can revert back to a safe BIOS. The quad BIOS is similar in that it's designed to have multiple saved configurations, typically for overclocking.
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chizad posted:Quick question about laptop hard drives. Are 7200RPM drives as big an improvement over 5400RPM drives in laptops as they are in desktops? I would say so. It seems the slowest component in most laptops nowadays is the hard drive. Vendors will put Core Duo processors and 2 GB of RAM but use a 4200RPM hard drive. Windows takes 2 minutes to load. It's a freaking joke. I immediately replaced my laptop hard drive with a 7200RPM hard drive and it flies now. I would absolutely recommend it if you can afford the upgrade.
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rndm posted:So when I'm playing WoW I sometimes get these green lines that appear over the game that fucks up all the textures and video. When I exit out to Windows it sometimes is there too and I dont know what to do about it. I have the latest ATI drivers installed so what else can it be? Check to make sure your card isn't overheating. Clean the heatsink of any dust and make sure the fan is spinning properly.
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Pumpy Tudors posted:I have an NVIDIA graphics card that I'd like to put into a new motherboard. Can I put this PCI Express NVIDIA card into a board that's Crossfire-compatible? Obviously, NVIDIA isn't Crossfire, but if I just want to put one graphics card into a motherboard, can this work? A single NVIDIA card will work just fine in a Crossfire board.
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Ravarek posted:Is it true that having a PCI soundcard ( as opposed to using onboard sound ) will give a minor boost to system performance since it offloads all the audio work? While this may have been true several years ago, audio really doesn't cause that much of a performance drop on modern processors. Vista will also help eliminate this concern as I believe they are getting rid of Direct Sound 3D acceleration, so it will all be done in software anyway. Edit: Here's a post by a Creative rep over on their forums regarding the changes in Vista. As expected, they're trying to get developers to use OpenAL so they still have a market  :http://forums.creative.com/creativelabs/board/message?board.id=Vista&message.id=1694 Star War Sex Parrot fucked around with this message at 20:35 on Oct 12, 2006 |
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Tracer Tong posted:I have a FPCCD19 External CD Drive with my Fujitsu Lifebook B Series (2620) laptop. I have a USB bootable Floppy drive, and I was wondering how I would get either the CD drive to boot, or get it to boot through the DOS drivers I have using a Floppy disk. See if there's an updated BIOS for your unit to allow booting from external USB devices. Otherwise, you'll have to boot off of a USB enabled floppy boot disk and then run whatever install you need off of the CD.
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bo_chrud posted:First off, i have a stock 120mm jet plane engine in the back of my cooler master case. The case itself, has a 90mm in front of the hd bay, and im using the stock amd cooler. I was just wondering, would i honestly lose anything if i installed a 90mm fan instead? Replace it with a 120MM Yate Loon and you'll never hear it again.
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utopian180 posted:I have a laptop hard drive that isn't recognized in the bios of my desktop when it was not to long ago; I can't hook it up either via my IDE-USB connector, nor via my IDE-Laptop IDE converter, though I used to be able to. I tried sticking it in the freezer for awhile. Do you even know if it powers on? Does it click? We need some more info about the condition of the drive to suggest solutions. CactusWeasle posted:Can i unplug the north bridge fan on my motherboard without frying it? Buy this. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16835118014 Assuming you don't have a massive graphics card that will get in the way of that heatsink. Star War Sex Parrot fucked around with this message at 23:11 on Dec 1, 2006 |
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RoundsToZero posted:Is the mid-range 8 series, 8600, going to come out in an AGP model? Or should I buy a 7600GS, which I know has an AGP model? Will the price of the 7600's go down significantly when the 8600 comes out? I believe I read that the 8x00 series would not be coming to AGP, but I'll try to find a link to back it up. Then again, that's also what they said about the 7x00 series initially.
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ijustam posted:Sorry to bump this from the 5 day grave, but I didn't want to make a new thread for a specific question... Every motherboard I've worked on with Intel integrated graphics lacked the ability to act as a secondary display adapter once a graphics card was installed. I believe this is an actual limitation of the chipset itself and can't be worked around unfortunately. I've been able to do it with integrated offerings from NVIDIA, but never Intel.
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Burning Mustache posted:^^^ RAID 0's a complete waste of money for gaming. It's a topic that's been beaten to death on these forums, so any time it's brought up you're always ridiculed. To answer your question, you can use any drives you want. Edit from the SH/SC FAQ: quote:Should I use RAID 0 on my system to increase performance?
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simcole posted:What was the recommended website for buying cheap hdmi cables. http://monoprice.com/home/index.asp
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dest posted:Is there anyway to make the windows desktop and movies, completely full screen, and not have that little black border? I'm using an Nvidia card, are there any third party drivers that would help me adjust that? I'm pretty sure you should have overscan settings in your NVIDIA control panel.
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Tamizander Rey posted:I have a question and I'd like to prove my roommate wrong. Unless they're actually using bandwidth by torrenting or something like that then he has no reason to turn them off. Computers don't randomly use up bandwidth unless they're downloading Windows Updates or have been hijacked. Otherwise they don't use any noticeable amount of bandwidth while idle. Tell him to stop touching your god drat computers or you'll piss on his Xbox and poo poo under his pillow.
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boingthump posted:My question is are DX10 Cards backwards compatible to Dx9?
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Avalanche posted:How long is microsoft going to continue to support Win XP with regular updates? 2014 for XP Pro, at least I think that's what this page means. I could be wrong because that seems like an awfully long time. http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/?p1=3223 Star War Sex Parrot fucked around with this message at 21:46 on Jul 26, 2007 |
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A Large Cake posted:Dell DM051. Prebuilt. That's an E510, which according to  means you have a PCIe 16x slot.
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is that a egg posted:I have a Toshiba Satellite M115 and there are some games I am interested in that require better graphics card setups than the integrated Intel chipset that I currently have. Is it at all possible to upgrade this or am I SOL?
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liquidfire posted:Will this http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813186115 fit in an Antec Sonata 2? My mobo fried and this is the cheapest replacement I can find.
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It doesn't seem like 1TB drives have been around long enough to come to any conclusions regarding reliability, or at least I haven't heard any. I've got a couple at work that I've had no problems with, but that's an essentially worthless endorsement. Hard drives can be finicky, so I just tend to err on the side of caution and keep lots of backups. Since you said you'll be using this device primarily as a Time Machine backup drive, I'd say you'll be fine. Unless of course the drive somehow breaks at the same time as the Mac you're using it as backup for. For worst case scenario circumstances like that (house burning down, getting robbed, etc.) I use Amazon's S3 for cheap off-site backup of my most critical documents.
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fallenturtle posted:Is there a better thread for my question?
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Space Gopher posted:Try the new Flash beta before you buy a new processor. Adobe finally got off their asses and started offloading video decoding to the video card.
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Sour Fish posted:Is there a program that can give me a list of all the hardware that is in my pc?
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Danith posted:So my computer supports booting from a USB stick, I was wondering if I hooked a hard drive up to an SATA to USB adapter I would be able to boot off of it (assuming it was partitioned and had a boot sector)?
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Sour Fish posted:How can I tell how many platters my hard drive has? Seagate st3250823as 250gb 7200rpm
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I googled "seagate 7200.8 review" and came across this AnandTech article which describes the platter configuration.
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Xanin posted:If I can run them together, and say my current sticks are a slower speed, is it better to have 6GB of the slower speed or 4GB of the faster speed? Also, I'm pretty sure dissimilar RAM will run at different timings, but they'll definitely be locked to the same frequency. I could be wrong about the timings though. Why don't you use something like CPU-Z and tell us what kind of RAM is in your PC now?
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Boz0r posted:I tried just running that Prime95 program and my CPU temperature has (I hope) evened out at around 91-93 C, 195-198 F. That's seems pretty high, doesn't it?
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spe posted:I need a new hard drive because my current one is a broken piece of trash, which manufacturers should be avoided and which ones should be given more consideration?
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